The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve their software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

SEI Emerging Technology Center

The
SEI Emerging Technology Center helps the government stay on the edge of technology. The
world is innovating software and information technologies very rapidly and the
Center assists the government by identifying, demonstrating, extending and
applying emerging software technologies to meet critical government mission
needs. We focus on promoting government awareness and knowledge of emerging
technologies and their application, and shaping and leveraging academic and
industrial research. The Center is part of the Software Engineering Institute
(SEI), which is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) run
by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

Our Work

The SEI Emerging Technology Center seeks
improved ways to process and analyze large amounts of information and to
support dynamic and evolving applications. We work to answer the question: "How do we bring
innovation to real government challenges?" The Center concentrates on understanding
the challenges and exploring solutions to government needs through promoting open innovation, conducting
technology evaluations, performing
technology demonstrations,
and supporting technology transition. We work closely with members of the technical staff
at SEI, CMU faculty, collaborators at other universities, government labs, and
research organizations.

Technical Areas

Since its creation in 2010, the SEI Emerging Technology Center has
focused on data-intensive scalable computing, which includes the following
technical areas: